Should People Be Allowed To Smoke In Public ?

Yes! We're adults.

Being a regular cigar smoker and who is financially impacted by the laws pressed upon tobacco smokers, I am SICK OF IT.
No, I do not want smoking in restaurants or bars. No I do not feel people should have to pass through a cloud of smoke if they do not want to.

Loosen the restrictions. Give us tobacco smokers outlets to smoke like more CIgar bars, and lounges. People who go in there smoke. if you dont like the smoke dont go in.


Public places not around food, or a facility that is a school, high school and down ONLY, should be allowed to smoke anywhere but there.


I am sorry BUT, FU to everyone else. there is no law banning your disgusting perfume, your loud phone conversations or the Moron who walks into other people or traffic while texting. if there is open space and open air, the smkoke will not bother you.

I am also an advocate for smoker courtesy. DUDE DONT GOT SPARK A STICK in front of people who are already sitting down in central park. walk somewhere else.

WE can all get along and I will NOT let my rights as a smoker be violated anymore. CRA! (Cigar Rights of America)

Did you know, in Maine (not sure if there are other similar states) It is illegal to smoke in your own vehicle if you have kids with you?

If you can drink in public, you can smoke in public. I dont enjoy walking behind smokers - my hubby gets embarassingly melodramatic and makes gagging noises so I dont enjoy walking with HIM behind smokers. But I can move out of the way. Smokers only hurt themselves (and yes second hand is bad for others too) but I am certainly not going to tell people they cannot enjoy a smoke outside of their own homes.

I hate watching people drink in public. Cause, for the most part, that means they are going to be driving soon. I have always had issue with drinking then driving, I dont care if you have high alcohol tolerance (like I do) or your legal limit is .08, the fact that drinking DOES impair judgement, period, makes the drinker a risk to not just themselves but to everyone they encounter.

I enjoy eating in public, I would feel affronted if someone made faces at me because (being overweight) I should not be eating so much/that stuff/at all.

I do not smoke. I come from a family of chain smokers. My dad just had major surgery for an aortic bypass to his legs thanks LARGELY to him being a smoker for most of his 65 years, after already having stints put in the same arteries and being told DO NOT SMOKE OR YOU WILL DIE. He smoked, the stints failed. Major surgery- DO NOT SMOKE OR YOU WILL DIE. I am fairly sure he will be smoking again by the end of the year despite the very sobering prognosis of 5 years MAYBE to live (After a series of ugly amputations) if he goes back to smoking. So yea, I have strong opinions on smoking. But it's their perogative to smokee, and they are willing to pay the ridiculous costs financially and physically. Public smoking?

Stop drinking in public first, then we can discuss

These days, I think no smoking in / near a restaurant (especially on a dining patio) and not near buildings. I'm willing to make those compromises. However, I think people should be allowed to smoke in public, outside, or in those designated areas inside the airport. I don't think others should be subjected to it, but I don't think smokers should have to change their lifestyle if they don't want to. We aren't on a mission, as a society, to outlaw other unhealthy decisions (drinking, being overweight / not exercising, consuming pesticides or chemicals or pharmaceuticals with awful side-effects), so why change smoking just because it's suddenly unpopular.

I was a 32 year smoker. I don't mind if they smoke as long as it's outdoors at least 60 feet away from doors. Personally, I don't mind the passive smoke, but that's me. As for businesses, let the owners of the businesses decide if they want to permit it inside or not.

worse poisons and more of them come out of your car's exhaust than out of my cigar

People crab about second hand smoke, but I don't see legislation banning exhaust. Try sitting behind a bus...in heavy traffic...then tell me that second hand smoke is bad for you.

Some perfumes and colognes are culprits too (AXE, I hate you. BOD, I hate you).

I don't care if you smoke or don't smoke... just please keep it as much to yourself as possible... there is nothing more irratating than being stopped behind someone smoking at a stop light while they hang their cig out the window and their smoke is coming into my car... My parents smoke and I do not... And I really prefer to not be around people actively smoking because it doesn't matter how upwind I sit from the person it follows me anyway...

I agree it is annoying i hate smokers that litter, Be a responsible smoker like amy of us are

It should be in designated areas only. I went to Japan and it's so cool how they allocate a glass window room at the airport designated strictly for smokers. At the sidewalks, there are smoking areas that people group together at to smoke outside. We still have to walk past them, but at least you can probably cross the street if you must to avoid second hand smoke.

People crab about second hand smoke, but I don't see legislation banning exhaust. Try sitting behind a bus...in heavy traffic...then tell me that second hand smoke is bad for you.

Some perfumes and colognes are culprits too (AXE, I hate you. BOD, I hate you).

Funny thing, my parents would smoke 1 or 2 packs a day... but my mom would hack and cough and go into an asthma attack anytime I would use my "smelly" (Neutrogena) soap when I took a shower... Heaven help me if I decided to put on some lotion, even unscented, or perfume... you would think she was dying...

I think people are more pissed about the smell than the smoke itself. Like people have said, exhaust is worse for you and smells worse, in my opinion. Cigarettes don't bug me too bad, but I think cigars and pipes smell amazingly good. Anyway, I think McDonald's restaurants smell like butt, so do most people's cologne or perfume. Just b/c it's suddenly popular to hate smoking doesn't mean we need to outlaw it. I still feel for your right to not have to smell it and I think smokers are, for the most part, following distance laws and such. I also agree that smokers need to be responsible for their butts and not littering. it's every day that I see a driver toss a butt out on the highway.

I agree with you 100% and like i have always said its about being a responsible smoker and for that fact being a responsible person

How should I know? I don't have shrieking kids.

Way to miss the point.

Lighten up, I was just kidding lol As for the smoking thing, I was thinking more along the lines of public places. If you want to smoke outside, knock yourself out, but I stick by what I said. Why should non-smokers have to be subject to your bad habit?

Why should smokers be subject to your good habits? Maybe I don't like breathing fresh air. Maybe when I go outside to smoke I like to breath it all back in because it makes me feel like a wizard.

I smoke, if there is a designated smoking area, I go to it. If the designated smoking area is the only spot in a 3 mile radius that isn't in the shade, I will encroach on non-smoking land. But if anyone walks by, I won't breath, especially kids. If you come and talk to me with your kids, I will put it out because it doesn't matter if you don't care if your kids are around it, I do. I don't smoke in my house, in my car or by my kids (they aren't allowed outside when we are smoking, one of the reasons it's so hard to quit I think)

I think most smokers are considerate of non-smokers. And the ones that aren't are going to remain inconsiderate regardless of whether they smoke or not. And there will always be complaints about those people, if it's not smoking it'll be cussing or showing strangers their innappropriately placed tattoo, or bumping into you in the street, not covering their mouth when they cough.... the list goes on

Where are my fellow cigar smokers... uggh god... CRA

Right here.

All my fellow bikers are also Cigar Smokers. In addition to impromptu gatherings, biker events and BBQ's, we meet up once a month at my home for Cigar Night. In the backyard. Away from the public. Every person there was invited. If someone shows up uninvited, they should bring cigars and Single Barrel Bourbon or don't come by. To paraphrase "You can take my cigar when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.

The way I see it...

You have the right to smoke, but I have the right to not have to smoke. And when someone lights up next too me...my choice has been taken away. And the healthiest option has to win out.

Should I have to walk through a cloud of toxic, cancer causing second hand smoke and breath it in.? I don't know, how do you feel about you flying an airplane over a busy street and spraying everyone down there with aldicarb, or some other toxic pesticide?

There is no difference.

Smoke if you want to. Kill yourself if you want to. Just do it in private where I do not have to breath in the poisons.

I cannot believe that this is even a serious question.

I don't think there's anything proving secondhand smoke when you're in the great outdoors. Inside, I fully understand. But just because you can smell secondhand smoke doesn't mean you're getting the things that give smokers cancer. Just because you can smell my fart doesn't mean it's invaded your lungs, just your olfactory senses.

It's called science. If you can smell it, it's because there is particulate matter in the inhale that is triggering your senses.